Commit c6b40d16 authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg Committed by Linus Torvalds

fix sscanf %n match at end of input string

I was playing with some code that sometimes got a string where a %n
match should have been done where the input string ended, for example
like this:

  sscanf("abc123", "abc%d%n", &a, &n);  /* doesn't work */
  sscanf("abc123a", "abc%d%n", &a, &n); /* works */

However, the scanf function in the kernel doesn't convert the %n in that
case because it has already matched the complete input after %d and just
completely stops matching then. This patch fixes that.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 757dea93
...@@ -825,6 +825,17 @@ int vsscanf(const char * buf, const char * fmt, va_list args) ...@@ -825,6 +825,17 @@ int vsscanf(const char * buf, const char * fmt, va_list args)
break; break;
str = next; str = next;
} }
/*
* Now we've come all the way through so either the input string or the
* format ended. In the former case, there can be a %n at the current
* position in the format that needs to be filled.
*/
if (*fmt == '%' && *(fmt + 1) == 'n') {
int *p = (int *)va_arg(args, int *);
*p = str - buf;
}
return num; return num;
} }
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